Afroserphus Masner, 1961

Kolyada, Victor A. & Mostovski, Mike B., 2007, On a putative Gondwanan relic Afroserphus bicornis Masner (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupidae), with a description of the hitherto unknown female, African Invertebrates 48 (2), pp. 261-265 : 262

Genus Afroserphus Masner, 1961

Afroserphus: Masner 1961: 37 ; Townes & Townes 1981: 60; Johnson 1992: 279 (catalogue).

Type species: Afroserphus bicornis Masner, by original designation.

Diagnosis:

Body stout. Head broad, transverse ( Fig. 5 ). Eyes bare. Frons with short prominent triangular horns above antennal insertion. Central part of frons bare and shiny. Mandible elongate, slightly curved, with single point. Maxillary palpus short. Male flagellum without noticeable tyloids. Notaulus absent. Collar in form of high ridge. Anterodorsal part of lateral aspect of pronotum obliquely wrinkled. Mesoscutum distinctly elongated, showing remarkable deep dense thimble-like punctures, and with anterolateral punctatorugose area in position of notaulus. Epomia present. Scutellar pit with longitudinal carinae. Scutellum large, entirely rugose, bordered with keel, with broad smoothed hollow dorsally. Horizontal mesopleural groove complete. Middle basitarsus longer than hind basitarsus. All tarsal claws with 4 parallel-sided blunt teeth ( Fig. 6 ). Stigma deep, almost as deep as wide, subcircular; vertical part of radius curved backwards at 90°. Medio-cubital cross (medial sclerite; Naumann & Masner 1985) well-developed as oval sclerite at forewing base. Abdomen without distinct stalk ( Fig. 9 ). Syntergite with distinct traces of fusion of tergites 2–5, its margins not overlapping and leaving synsternite widely open. Ovipositor sheath broad and short ( Fig. 10 ).

Figures

Figs 5–10. Details of body structures of Afroserphus bicornis female, ESEM: (5) head with small frontal horns above antennal pits, (6) fore-tarsal claw, (7, 8) propodeum in lateral and dorsal aspects, (9) abdomen laterally, (10) ovipositor.